Four decades. Countless stories. One mindset.
For more than 40 years, we’ve been bringing brands and people together. Not just through stands, concepts, or systems. But through what stands behind them. In the end, it’s always the people who make the difference. How they work together. How they think ahead. How they take responsibility — even when things get complicated.
When you look back at four decades of meplan, you’re not really telling a list of projects. You’re telling stories of encounters and situations that stayed with you. Moments when something came to life that no one had seen quite like that before.
That’s exactly what these stories are about. Each one represents something that shaped us. A mindset. A step forward. Sometimes also a lesson we learned along the way.
Discover what sets us apart – and take a look behind the scenes.
Truly connected.
A quick exchange within the team, a click into the network — and suddenly a project on the other side of the world feels close.
Our network is large, of course. But what really matters is the service mindset behind it. People who pick up the phone, ask questions, find solutions, and make sure that a project anywhere in the world feels as if the team were right there on site.
That’s how we work. A lot of coordination, many partners, many places. Sometimes it’s about Las Vegas, sometimes about entirely different cities. In the end, it always comes down to the same thing: you have to be able to rely on each other.
Truly Connected. For 40 Years.
Reliable Partnerships.
Sometimes it takes years to realize what a partnership truly means.
A look through old project documents, a brief exchange — and suddenly many shared years are there again. Projects, decisions, situations in which you simply had to rely on each other.
That’s exactly how lasting partnerships are created. Not because they are written down somewhere, but because people work together over a long time and build trust.
Reliable Partnerships. For 40 Years.
Passionately Circular.
Wood, connectors, surfaces — things that have already seen many deployments and are still ready for the next one.
That’s exactly what this is about. Not using materials once and moving on, but thinking about them in a way that makes them last. Come back. Become part of a new appearance again.
Sustainability at meplan often happens exactly like this. In conversation, directly with the material, with an eye on what will still make sense in the next project too.
That’s how circularity grows at meplan.
Passionately Circular. For 40 years.
Simply Forward.
That’s often what change feels like at meplan. Experience on one side, new ideas on the other. And somewhere in between, something emerges that brings both perspectives together.
Because after 40 years, you know: things change. Technologies, markets, expectations. What matters is not what changes — but how you deal with it.
At meplan, that means: thinking ahead. Getting things done. And moving forward together.
Simply Forward. For 40 years.
40 Years of meplan – Our Milestones
| 1986 | The beginning. meplan is founded with a focus on system stand construction. |
| 1990 | First growth. 5 employees. |
| 1998 | Creativity meets exhibition construction. Launch of meplan Design — the starting point for custom stand construction. |
| 2001 | Digital from the start. Launch of the stand configurator — one of the first digital tools in the industry. |
| 2002 | Strong partners. Messe München and GHM acquire stakes in meplan. |
| 2004 | The team grows. 35 employees. |
| 2007 | More than building. Launch of meplan Consult — strategic consulting for trade fair appearances. |
| 2008 | Closer to the organizer. Launch of meplan Organiser Services. |
| 2009 | A digital edge. Launch of meplan Digital Services and the first app. |
| 2010 | Built for the long term. Start of the partnership with Spielwarenmesse. |
| 2014 | International expansion. Integration of the IMAG stand construction division as meplan International. |
| 2016 | 30 years of meplan. Three decades of passion for brands and people. 90 employees. |
| 2019 | Sustainability you can experience. Launch of woodï — the sustainable and innovative full-service exhibition design concept. |
| 2020 | The world stands still. meplan doesn’t. Shift to hybrid and digital event formats. Construction of vaccination centers during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | A restart with purpose. Return of live events and expansion of hybrid solutions. |
| 2023 | Stronger together. mac. brand spaces joins meplan as a shareholder — combining expertise for holistic exhibition solutions. |
| 2025 | Certified sustainability. ISO 20121 certification — sustainable event management as a defined standard. Winner of the Bavarian Resource Efficiency Award. |
| 2026 | 40 years of meplan. Four decades of passion: For brands. For people. For moments. German Design Award winner with woodï.🎉 |
